King Charles confirmed the UK government's plan to ban conversion therapy during the State Opening of Parliament on Wednesday, but the announcement marks the fourth time in eight years that a sitting government has pledged to end the practice without delivering.
'My government will bring forward a draft bill to ban abusive conversion practices,' the King said in his address to the House of Lords, reading from legislation prepared by Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government. An addendum to the speech declared that 'conversion practices are abuse' and committed to a trans-inclusive ban covering both sexual orientation and gender identity.
